This story always has a lot of unnecessary parts, if they held on that long they could have held on just a little bit longer because it didn’t even take that long to kill them, and then instead of the snake telling him about his worry’s he just kept it to himself and the monk almost was killed even after losing his hand. Just say tell no one to go near and then figure it out why produce that worry and say watch out at the last second
You must think I'm locked in here with you, but you're WRONG it is you who's locked in here with ME.